The only unforgivable sin is deliberate cruelty.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSHow long does it have to go on? This punishment? Haven’t I done time enough, haven’t I served my term? can’t I apply for a-pardon?
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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At the age of fourteen I discovered writing as an escape from a world of reality in which I felt acutely uncomfortable.
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The right condition for him is that in which his work in not only convenient but unavoidable.
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Physical beauty is passing – a transitory possession – but beauty of the mind, richness of the spirit, tenderness of the heart – I have all these things – aren’t taken away but grow! Increase with the years!
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That time is short and it doesn’t return again. It is slipping away while I write this and while you read it, and the monosyllable of the clock is Loss, loss, loss, unless you devote your heart to its opposition.
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All good art is an indiscretion.
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Don’t you just love these long rainy afternoons in New Orleans when an hour isn’t just an hour — but a little bit of eternity dropped in your hands — and who knows what to do with it?
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Men don’t want anything they get too easy. But on the other hand, men lose interest quickly.
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We are all civilized people, wich means that we are all savages at heart but observing a few amenities of civilized behaviour.
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The human heart would never pass the drunk test…. If you took the human heart out of the human body and put a pair of legs on it and told it to walk a straight line, it couldn’t do it.
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Hell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person.
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I have always been more interested in creating a character that contains something crippled. I think nearly all of us have some kind of defect.
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Nobody sees anybody truly, but all through the flaws of their own ego.
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Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.
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It is planned speeches that contain lies or dissimulations, not what you blurt out so spontaneously in one instant.
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Success and failure are equally disastrous.
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